The latest batch of winners in Epic’s ongoing MegaGrants program includes games, a couple of which break the mold but most intriguingly technology companies that are pushing on the walls of game engine technology to expand where games and game engines haven’t gone before and that of course is one of the major reasons there is an Epic MegaGrant. In … Read more
With Nuke 12.2 Foundry is adding support of USD. Users can bring in geometry from USD using the ReadGeo node. This is just the start says the company, it will be expanding USD support overcoming releases. (Source: Foundry) Foundry has been tinkering with its lineup of tools for special effects artists, adding on and building out, but always focusing … Read more
The FMX conference continues this year as a digital production and is combining its greatest hits with new content. Coming up, FMX will feature “A Phantasmagorical Journey with Phil Tippett,” Monday, July 20, 8 PM CET/11 AM PST on www.fmx.de. One of our huge regrets around FMX was missing Phil Tippett’s talk at FMX in 2018 and the debut of his … Read more
We’re all virtual now. Graphisoft convened a meeting of our virtual selves for their annual worldwide meeting. This year the theme was Building Together as CEO Huw Roberts and his team unveiled a new version of Archicad. More important for parent company Nemetschek, the virtual conference also showcased new levels of interoperability with Nemetschek’s RISA and SCIA for an integrated … Read more
Apparently, when you lock a bunch of creative people up, they keep on creating. Adobe has fired out a barrage of updates, blogs, and user stories to talk about the ways in which the world is changing which, to be fair, we did know. What we’re fascinated by are the ways in which Adobe is changing. Adobe’s executives are talking … Read more
The construction industry has emerged as a major opportunity within the AEC segment of design and engineering tools. There has been a pent up demand for new construction for affordable housing, new commercial projects, and above all infrastructure. The CAD companies serving the segment have been building just as enthusiastically enabling better communications between the home office and the trailer … Read more
During first half of 2020, it became obvious to people in every business that expectations for the near future would have to be seriously adjusted. Pandemic will do that. The 2020 CAD Report from Jon Peddie Research was completed at the end of 2019. At that time, that seems so long ago, we were cautious about the prospects for 2020 … Read more
Technical Suite is the last of CorelDraw’s rolling introduction, which includes CorelDraw Essentials 2020 for creative consumers, occasional users, CorelDraw Standard 2020 for office, CorelDraw Graphics Suite for professionals, and now CorelDraw Technical Suite for technical documentation. There’s a version of CorelDraw for everyone. CorelDraw Technical Suite is not for everyone. It’s a Windows-based application for content creators working with … Read more
In 2016, Bose made the trip to SXSW with their new plan for AR and unveiled AR sunglasses. Unlike most AR approaches, the Bose glasses didn’t have digital images added to the real-world view through the glasses, they offered additional information through speakers—a perfectly Boseian approach. These glasses unencumbered by expensive optics played audio and featured a microphone. A sensor … Read more
Erica, a robot created by Japanese roboticists Hiroshi Ishiguro and Kohei Ogawa is going to be in a movie. The movie, b, is now in development and written by Special Effects Supervisor Eric Pham, actor Tarek Zohdy, and Sam Khoze, who is listed in IMDB as producer and robot enthusiast. An early incarnation of Erica at Osaka University in 2015. … Read more
Last year, Siemens's design and manufacture sub-company that was known as Siemens PLM signaled a major turning point in its ongoing transformation within the larger Siemens megacompany. It changed its name to Siemens Digital Industries Software, which at least freed the company from the albatross of the unpopular term PLM and also integrated the group tighter into Siemens as a … Read more
Adobe demonstrated Photoshop Camera at Adobe Max last year in Los Angeles, which seems like about 4 years ago. And, at the time, it seemed like Photoshop Camera was just another cute little phone app like all the other apps we had to have, played with a while, and then abandoned for the next shiny thing. And, actually, it is … Read more
